A Moveable Feast #DSIGlobal

“I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.” Hemingway, from private papers in the collection of the John F. Kennedy Library

The result of the May 7 presidential election in France was the victory of the centrist liberal Emmanuel Macron. He was employed from 2008 to 2012, by the Rothschild & Co. investment bank, which is the equivalent of Goldman Sachs in elitist circles absent a family heritage stretching back centuries. Macron was known there as a rainmaker – nicknamed a “Mozart of finance.” His primary skill lay in reaching out to potential clients within his own elevated circle. Which is to say that absolutely nothing will change in France over the next five years that threatens that elite circle in any fundamental way. Which is to say that the European Union will continue on its present track, enabling Germany to dominate the entirety of Europe.

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in [the French elite] as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for [the French elite are] a moveable feast.” Ernest Hemingway